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Concorida University’s Gender Advocacy Center will be holding a series of events this week to empower and inspire students and members of the Montreal community.

According to the Link, it will be the third annual Another Word for Gender Series, which focuses on social justice through a gender-issues lens. The various events will highlight issues relating to marginalized members of society.

The Centre’s Programming and Campaigns Coordinatior, Bianca Mugyenyi says it will be a diversified series for people that see and challenge inequality and injustice in different ways, and will help to build people’s strengths.

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Good news for Montrealers living in the East end of the city.

According to Radio-Canada, the province will announce Friday morning at 10 a.m. their intention to extend the metro system’s blue line beyond the St.Michel terminus.

The province plans on adding as many as five stations to the east, covering a distance of six kilometers all the way to the borough of Anjou.

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A physician and a filmmaker from Ontario were arrested and have been held captive in Cairo, Egypt since August 16.

According to CBC News they still have not faced formal charges and their imprisonment has been extended for fifteen days.

The imprisonment of the physician and the filmakker not only concerns their family members, but concerns the Canadian government as well.

The brother of the physician stated that the imprisonment of the two gentlemen is absurd because there is no valid reason for it.

The brother also stated that both gentlemen were in Gaza to do a job and it is unfair to punish them fot it.

The Philippine army is cracking down on dozens of armed rebel forces who invaded southern Zamboanga last Monday.

According to BBC News, the army killed around 50 rebels who are believed to be part of the Muslim separatist group called the Moro National Liberation Front.

The army also captured over 40 other gunmen during the one-week operation.

The rebels were reported to have taken about 100 civilians hostage, most of who were freed.

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Two new water reserves in Kenya may give residents hope after it was hit by a drought last year.

In a report by the BBC, two aquifers were discovered in the country's northern Turkana and Lotikipi basins.

Kenya's environment minister Judi Wakhungu says the country currently uses less than 10 percent per year of what the new reserves can potentially supply - up to 250 billion cubic metres for 70 years.

But with discovery comes with a call for responsible management.

Abou Amani studies water for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO.

He asks the government for caution in handling how the reserves will be used - adding that it should not overexploit the aquifers.

Student unions across Canada are fed up with its dose of politics.

In a report by The Link, 16 Universities are mobilizing to leave the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). 

The federation brings together over 80 post-secondary school student unions to make high quality education accessible.

But former Dawson student union executive Nicholas Di Penna says it has too many flaws to continue working within the federation, citing issues dealing with finance and setting ground rules.

He adds that internal reforms were impossible to achieve because of political gain.

Di Penna hopes to have participating schools ready for the mass exodus between now and next year.

This isn't the first time schools attempted to leave the federation.

An independent, student funded Concordia organization has filed a human rights complaint to try to ease the procedure of changing one’s legal gender.

According to the Link, under the current Quebec Civil Code, anyone wanting to change their legal gender has to first undergo sexual reassignment surgery, be at least 18 years old and be of Canadian citizenship.

Peer Support and Trans Advocacy Coordinator at the Centre, Gabrielle Bouchard says the obligatory surgery is the same as “forced sterilization.”